Wire bound package



Jan. 25, 1938. J. w. SIMMONS WIRE BOUND PACKAGE Filed March 9, 1936'Patented Jan. 25, 1938 i-Jiii'iED This PATENT OFFICE WIRE BOUND PACKAGEJack W. Simmons, Tallahassee, Fla.

Application March 9, 1936, Serial No. 67,971

2 Claims. (Cl. 21747) This invention relates to the art of loosecooprangement the walls may be folded outwardly erage, it beingparticularly concerned with 001- and downwardly with respect to thebottom for lapsible packages such as knockdown boxes, crates collapsing.Associated with this unit is a lid memand the like. In this art the wirebound packber L provided with cleats 8 at each end arranged age has comeinto wide use, the most common for mortise and tenon engagement with thetops 5 types of such packages consisting of a unit made of the wallcleats, and having similar flexible up of a bottom and two side wallsconnected in binding elements S secured thereto as short seclooselyhinged relation by flexible binding eletions adapted to be tied to theends of the bindments attached to and extending over their outer ingelements on the foldable unit when in service 10 faces at spacedintervals, together with a sepaposition, as shown at the top of Figure4. 10 i'ately attachable top or lid, and separately at- In practisingthe invention the wall cleats l tech-ed end panels deteeha-blyassociated with the are provided at vertically spaced intervals onbottom and sides. The art has long So an their inner faces with inwardlyextending headed assembly whereby the de ac ab e Panels may securingstuds having their shanks 9 anchored e ppli d with as n speed y Wi o inthe bodies of the cleats and projecting lat- 15 sacrifice of strength.erally inward therefrom, terminating in button An object of the presentinVentiOn is p heads l9. End panels H are provided, they being vision ofa novel detachable panel assembly for of proper dimensions t providecomplete end Collapsible packages Which eliminates the use Of coverage.These end panels preferably have plane ues, groov and guide Clea/6S,thus aVOidinner faces and have secured to their outer faces 20 ing inassembly the time Consuming factor of along each side edge portion acleat 12 adapted frictional resistance yet at the same time retaint b t,th n l t 1 i registry th t ing the structural strength of such means.Other Extending through the material of the panels obj cts w be pp fromthe deseliptien t0 and the panel cleats are key-hole slots having thoseskilled in the art. their narrowed portions upwardly directed with 25 hepr s nt disclosure constitutes a practical respect to the top of anassembled package, these embodiment by wh c t e invention s reducedslots being designated 13. They correspond in to practice. It is to beunderstood that the StIllC- number and location to the securing studs ontural details thereof are capable of variation as th wall cleat desiredso long as they remain consistent with In assembling a package thcollapsible nit 30 the scope of the invention as claimed. is unfoldedand opened to bring the walls W In the drawing, Figure 1 is aperspective View perpendicular to the bottomB with the end joints of apackage emb dying the invention. of their cleats in engagement. The endpanels Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the I! are then placedin a Vertical position between detachable end panels employed. thepackage walls, between which they may be 35 Figure 3 s a bottom p View fa lid me moved freely, and are moved towards the packber. age ends withthe enlarged portions of the key- Figure 4 is an enlarged transversevertical sechole slots 13 taking over the button heads IG tion throughan assembled package as in service of the securing studs after whichthey are moved 40 position. down until their lower edges rest on thepackage 40 Figure 5 is a section taken on the line 55 bottom, whereuponthe narrowed portions of the of Figure e. slots will have taken over theshanks of the se- This invention finds perhaps its greatest field curingstuds locking the package ends together of utility in connection withwire bound wooden in a strong reinforced end assembly. The lid boxesarid the like Comprising unit consisting member L is then applied andthe ends of the 45 of a bottom B and Opp Side Wells W 0011- fiexiblebinding elements tied, assuring against nected in loosely hingedrelation by flexible bindvertical movement of th d l ing elements S,commonly wire straps, stapled I or otherwise suitably attached to theouter faces A collapsible package comprising in combi 0f the Walls andbottom at Spaced intervals nation, a foldable unit consisting of opposedside 50 tieulal'ly at the ends- The Walls and bottom are walls and abottom connected in loosely hinged usually of slatted constructionhaving bottom relation by attached flexible binding elements end Cleats5 and Side W311 cleats 71 the ,end cleats carried by the ends of saidwalls, Speetive ends of all the Cleats being formed for headed studscarried by and projecting laterally to mortise and tenon nt. y su harinward of said cleats, detachable anels insert-- studs projectinglaterally inward from said cleats and having enlarged heads spaced fromthe inner faces of the cleats, a panel freely slidable between saidwalls longitudinally of the package, and said panel having key-holeslots for interlocking engagement with said studs behind their heads.

JACK W. SIMMONS.

